Solaris998

As for when this takes place in-story I have to agree that it has to be at least post-Chapter 11 given that Alear wouldn't know who the Four Hounds are to react to their alt selves if it was before that point

Veronica is a weird case because all evidence seems to suggest that they originally had Emblem Veronica as her Book 1 design before changing to her Legendary appearance at relatively the last minute because L!Veronica didn't exist not long ago. As you said the characterization is off for this design and she doesn't have Enclosing Dark as an Engage Weapon despite her Emblem holding it during battle.

The difference is that IS clearly doesn't consider Heroes to be a "Fire Emblem game that is not a Fire Emblem game". They don't even consider it a spinoff it's listed with mainline games on the official FE website while Warriors and TMS are in their own spinoff category. They consider Heroes to be a mainline FE just on a mobile device.

Not to mention this thread is pretty dead now with the Leak thread now going, people are either looking at spoilers or avoiding them

To be completely fair here we're not supposed to already have it

Welp they finally decided to release this trailer in English, not that it matters much at this point https://youtu.be/GJCOoTp6v5I

Well thanks to Heroes we now have some English VAs Alfred - Nick Wolfhard Céline - Rachelle Heger Chloé - Elizabeth Simmons F!Alear - Laura Stahl

Looks like they decided to repost this one with Zofia spelled correctly and add some more in another

That sure is a tweet about Fire Emblem Engage NoA

We've heard so many conflicting reports about this at this point that I'm just not gonna trust any of their opinions and judge when I play myself

Okay so I was looking over the videos again and I actually don't think this is the case that the map layouts are that drastically different, looking at the English footage with Lumera not at the top I notice she also isn't Engaged with Sigurd. And since I don't think they'd take that out I think what's actually happening here is that Lumera is in tutorial mode on the bottom and then will move to the top to be the proper chapter boss and call in reinforcements once you defeat her once

We also have a video from Digital Foundry regarding performance and the like interesting to note in this video at 5:16 it looks like the sword we've been calling Alear's personal weapon, Liberation, originally belonged to Lumera as she's seen wielding it here

Reputed/respected gaming news outlets and reviewers get sent the game early by Nintendo themselves in order to preview and review the games for marketing purposes before release

Given what what we've seen so far: Marth was kept with Alear We see in the First Fire Emblem video that Lumera is engaged with Sigurd so it's in Lythos with her I think it's safe to say that Firene has Celica given the early game nature Roy is confirmed to be with Brodia Lyn definitely seems to be Elusia We've seen at least one cutscene of Timerra with Ike so I presume he's with Solm

Oh don't get me wrong I'm not saying it shouldn't have been released at the same time or that the marketing hasn't been weird I'm just saying that specific premise is Wrong

We did get that trailer in English though, it came out a few days after the Japanese version and both were after the DLC trailer

Anna tweets now in English courtesy of NoA, sounds like this Anna's English VA is Monica Rial, I recognize that tone

We can see Lumera as an enemy engaged with Sigurd in what I assume is a tutorial map so with that in mind: Marth was kept with Alear Sigurd was kept in Lythos with Lumera Celica I think is safe to assume is kept in Firene Roy was kept with Brodia We see Lyn and Lucina as enemies with Elusians so maybe both were kept there?

I like how everyone has forgotten the obvious Mercedes and Jeritza-

https://youtu.be/oJrItZRyALY well they've released the Somniel trailer in English finally

I think with Three Houses it's mostly because a lot of the events (especially in Act 1) are kinda independent events completely unrelated to which House Byleth chooses. Like logically speaking Byleth choosing to teach the Blue Lions or the Golden Deer would have zero effect on Lonato planning an uprising or Miklan stealing the Lance of Ruin so those events always happen

Yeah like, it sucks to not get new info obviously but this will have zero effect on the game's marketing or growth. I imagine those of us checking the Japanese only info tweets are a relatively small group of the fan base

We've got another official NoA post https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1582068942864265216?t=oqsPawsQ-Jv0ssA5CS1n6g&s=19

I mean is it Koei Tecmo's OC do not steal if Koei Tecmo also made the original game?

Something I haven't seen anyone around mention is this one first person shot of what almost looks like someone waking up in a test tube/stasis in a very Agarthan looking place and I wouldn't be surprised if it connected to this guy